23rd June 2006, 02:32 PM
Posted by Mercenary:
If, however, you have taken action to try and change things but been frustrated by your managers (as suggested in your most recent post) - then any failures of standards become their responsibility, not yours.
I am not sure what you mean about the scenarios. However, the point is that there are three archaeological parties here - the curator, the consultant and the contracting unit. They all have responsibilities, and if something is not being done properly then you can't just automatically say 'it's the consultant's fault'.
No consultant (and I am one) should be able to dictate to a curator, as Troll alleges happened in this case; if the curator allows himself to be dicated to by a consultant, that is a significant failure by the curator, not the consultant.
At the same time, no consultant should try to dictate inappropriate methodologies to a curator, and if they do that is a significant ethical failure by the consultant.
Lastly, no contracting unit should agree to carry out a methodology they consider to be inadequate for the purpose.
1man1desk
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Quote:quote:It must be woderful to exist in a working environment where you are not forced to compromise in one aspect of your job to better achieve a second more important goal. I don't really believe that you can fail to grasp this concept though.No problem with the concept - everyone alive has to live with compromises. The point, though, is that in your initial comments you made it clear that you considered the compromises you were making to be unacceptable.
If, however, you have taken action to try and change things but been frustrated by your managers (as suggested in your most recent post) - then any failures of standards become their responsibility, not yours.
I am not sure what you mean about the scenarios. However, the point is that there are three archaeological parties here - the curator, the consultant and the contracting unit. They all have responsibilities, and if something is not being done properly then you can't just automatically say 'it's the consultant's fault'.
No consultant (and I am one) should be able to dictate to a curator, as Troll alleges happened in this case; if the curator allows himself to be dicated to by a consultant, that is a significant failure by the curator, not the consultant.
At the same time, no consultant should try to dictate inappropriate methodologies to a curator, and if they do that is a significant ethical failure by the consultant.
Lastly, no contracting unit should agree to carry out a methodology they consider to be inadequate for the purpose.
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished